Nicola Is Under Pressure from Her Family to Decide on the Course

question 117

Multiple Choice

Nicola is under pressure from her family to decide on the course that she wants to study. She is interested in studying engineering but is not able to select the branch of engineering she wants to study. Her brothers are software engineers, and she feels that studying software engineering may be the right choice for her. However, she also seems interested in electrical engineering. In this scenario, Nicola is in the status of identity referred to as

• A) identity confusion.
• B) identity stagnation.
• C) identity diffusion.
• D) identity moratorium.

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Definitions:

Upper and Lower Classmen

Terms used primarily in the United States to distinguish students in their later years (juniors, seniors) as upperclassmen from those in their earlier years (freshmen, sophomores) as lowerclassmen.

Matched Pairs

An experimental design technique where each subject is paired with a similar subject or with the same subject under different conditions.

Variability

The degree by which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from each other and from the mean value.

Confidence

A measure of the reliability or certainty in statistical results, often expressed as a confidence interval or level.